The Presidential Library supported “Leningrad in the Year of Victory” Interfax project

The Presidential Library supported the new project of the Interfax North-West news agency Leningrad in the Year of Victory, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The Leningrad Victory is often called January 27, 1944 - the Day of the complete liberation of the city from the Nazi siege. A lot of scientific and journalistic materials, works of art and films are devoted to this theme.

The project focuses on the life of Leningraders in 1945, when the front line was already far away, and citizens were returning to civilian life, setting up housekeeping, solving pressing issues and restoring urban infrastructure, industry, and agriculture.

Interfax provides excerpts from city newspapers of the time - Leningradskaya Pravda and Smena. Excerpts from news, reports and readers' letters help to imagine what the city was like on the eve of Victory, how Leningraders lived in anticipation of the complete defeat of Nazism.

The project is supported by the Presidential Library and the National Library of Russia which digitized these newspapers.

Link to the column Leningrad in the Year of Victory on the portal of Interfax North-West news agency:

http://www.interfax-russia.ru/NorthWest/special.asp?id=1109782&sec=1751